A 28-year-old British man, most notable for his 2006 victory on the quiz show Countdown, tracked down a Scottish teenager who’d written a negative review of his self-published novel and shattered a bottle of wine on the back of her head. The aspiring author pleaded guilty to the 2014 assault in a Scottish court Monday, the Mirror reported.

A group of Tennessee teenagers were caught on camera outside a Kroger parking lot Saturday violently attacking a shopper and two teenaged employees who came to the man's aid.

A Cincinnati mom claimed over the weekend that her 13-year-old daughter may have attacked her because she was influenced by the mythological creature Slender Man. This is the second stabbing linked to the character, who's been popularized on the CreepyPasta Wiki.

Videos and photographs of what Syrian rebels say was a horrific chemical-gas attack on a Damascus suburb by the forces of Bashar al-Assad are beginning to emerge. Warning: These are very graphic.

Watch this video, via Good Morning America, and see the desperate measures killer whales will resort to when they're forced into a tank that's a fraction of a percentage of their normal environment and made to do tricks appealing to stupid humans instead of composing their pop songs and devising plans for a panglobal peaceful society.

A masked man in dark clothes 'attacks' a 26-year-old foreign exchange student while she has a cigarette outside in Pleasant Prairie, Wisc., only to give up and flee when she fights back. Just another bizarre crime in America's heartland? Or the start... of the most pathetic story of the year?

If you live in Wichita, Kansas, possess a scrotum, and enjoy confrontation, it's probably wise to wear your metal boxer-briefs for the next few weeks. Recently a Wichita man got into an argument with someone who stabbed him in the scrotum (which is not how you make friends!) and had to undergo surgery after part of the needle broke off and got stuck down there.

Not more than a week has passed since a Florida man sustained injuries in a shark attack, and already the lettuce porn fetishists at PETA have come up with a new ad campaign commemorating his memorable seaside experience. Now he can add "muse" to his resume.

A 13-year-old Australian boy instantly became the coolest kid at school after he survived an accidental whale attack over the weekend. Drew Hall was fishing with his parents on Sunday morning when a humpback whale swept its tail across their boat "from bow to stern," smacking Drew head-on and "sending him flying," according to his mother, who watched in terror.

[Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin beats up some guy at a sports center in St. Petersburg. Image via AP]

A bomb attack on a bus carrying soldiers in Istanbul killed at least three, according to TV reports.

To get an idea of how brutal chimp attacks are: the Connecticut woman who was attacked by an ape in February of 2009 has just been released from hospital. She "hopes for more reconstructive surgery."

Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Connecticut resident, has been taken into police custody at JFK airport. There is a Faisal Shahzad on Facebook whose profile picture shows him in Herald Square. Is it the same guy? (Update: No.)

A man injured five kindergartners with an iron hammer before grabbing two of the children and setting himself on fire—the third attack on a Chinese school in as many days. What the hell is going on?

As earthquakes shake our core, this is the last thing we need. Another Naomi Campbell Attack. The volatile Fashion-edition KillRobot 5000 allegedly rapped her driver about the face and neck this afternoon, then fled into the New York streets. Beware.

Who was the dark mastermind behind last January's Denial of Service attack that shut down Scientology.org for a little while? A teenager, obvs. 18-year-old Dmitriy Guzner, a self-proclaimed member of the 4Chan-related anti-Scientology group Anonymous has been busted by the Feds for his part in the shenanigans. The Verona, NJ, teen has plead guilty and could get slammed with ten years in prison. Ouch. Press release after the jump.

After the Pride Parade and all the happy partying that will follow, ride the trains in groups this evening because a man was attacked by gay-bashing thugs last night on the 2/3 train near the Christopher Street stop after volunteering at a Pride event. He says the police haven't caught his attackers. "The guy kept asking us to move because he didn't like us and [said] that we made him sick. There was no place else for us to go. He started hitting me and then his girlfriend started clawing me with her nails...I took a cab to St. Vincents, filed a police report and got two black eyes, 7 stitches, multiple chipped teeth, broken glasses." [Gothamist]